'Take that, Karen!': Top Karens of the Week (July 18, 2023)

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 18, 2023 4:00 PM EDT

The Karens are coming in hot this summer! This week, we've got a wide variety of disgruntled customers and entitled parents for your enjoyment and commiseration. To give you a glimpse at what's coming for you, first, we have a mom who refuses to avoid packing peanut butter sandwiches for her son despite other students' peanut allergies. Second, we have a table of Karens at a restaurant who could not get over the fact that the water was free. Next, there's the Karen at a Costco who got chicken juice all over her. Then, there's the Burger King Karen who gave the employee and manager a hard time about having no salt on her whopper. And last but certainly not least, we have a Karen with a ridiculously complicated Subway order. 

 

Keep scrolling below for these top Karen stories of the week. When you're finished, check out this collection of haircuts gone wrong and this list of red flags from job interviews.

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  • 01
    Font - Actual Lady Named Karen, Wants the School to Segregate Children With Allergies So Her Son Can Eat a Peanut Butter Sandwich.
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  • 02
    Font - 90 Like Elementary Just a friendly reminder that the school is a Peanut Free Zone. If you send your child to school with peanut products, they will be disposed of. Thank you! Great idea! Like Reply 11w Elementary's Post Comment X 2 comments 4 shares Share Most relevant Karen Can't you just have the kids with peanut allergies eat in a sucluded area? It's ridiculous my son can't enjoy his favorite sandwich for lunch because of a small percentage of kids with problems. Like Reply 11w ***
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    Font - Karen thinks she has found out about some "business scheme" So I worked as a waiter at a restaurant for a couple years. One of the most influriating expriences was when a Karen and her group of baby Karens sat down on a table. I took their orders and brought the food, and half an hour later I see that one of them has an empty glass, so I ask her if she wants some more water. It's important to mention that in the restaurant I worked at water was free, and part of my job description was to
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    Font - • You asked my friend before, I know people like you and I'm not gonna get my money stolen, no thankyou. • Um miss what do you mean "stolen", water is free • Haha and I'm supposed to believe that? Why would you intentionally go out of your way to give us free water? +... Because it's my job...?
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    Font - • Yeah no, I'm sure you will charge us for that later, businesses always do stuff like this • Don't worry miss, water is complimentary and completely free of charge • I don't believe you, prove it • Um... As you can see here in the menu, it says that water is in fact free • Ok but how can I know that you won't charge me for it later on?
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    Font - As you can imagine at this point I started losing patience, so I just call in my manager (this very assertive woman who doesn't take bs from anyone) and beg her to deal with it. Needless to say the Karens left completely defeated, it was honestly hilarious to watch, the whole staff was spying through the kitchen door that had a window haha
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    Font - Costco self checkout Karen gets juiced. So obligatory I'm on my phone. I work at Costco. As y'all may have read or heard, we are cracking down on membership verification at self checkout. Now since this began, I've dealt with many different, and colorful, versions of verbal abuse. Now, here's where things get interesting. I don't know if there's a weird Costco member's site somewhere that all these folks go to, but there has been an influx of them acting very similarly.
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    Font - Rather than speak to or even look at the employee, they take their membership card, shove it in the employee's face. So here I was, working self checkout, fielding all manners of verbal abuse, and for the fourth time (for me in the last week) a man takes his card and shoves it in my face. No words, only eye contact. Well, I back up a couple steps, because, 1) this is my personal space being invaded and 2) I can't see up close, even with my glasses on. As I step backward, he steps forward
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    Font - enough with the bull him to a self checkout and loudly inform a supervisor that this man insists on shoving his card in my face. I wanted everyone in the vicinity to hear me. As the supervisor is walking toward Karen, and I am walking back to my designated spot, the most beautiful thing happens. Now we sell cooked drumsticks, along with our rotisserie chicken. He had said drumsticks in his cart. Now usually, . I walk machine
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  • 10
    Font - since I try to be a nice person, I will use my hand scanner on them since they tend to pop open and spill. Well since I was having none of this guy, I didn't. As he went to tip them to scan the barcode on the top of the container, it pops open. He ends up with chicken juice ALL OVER the machine and his pants and shoes. Once I saw what was happening, I made eye contact with the supervisor and just busted up laughing. I was laughing MANIACALLY! I made sure Karen saw me laughing. Since
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    Font - our self checkout area is small, about 7X10 feet, other members who witnessed the whole situation were laughing. It really made the rest of my shift. On top of the juicing, he got a block on his account so if the chicken hasn't humbled him, and he behaves that way again, he loses his membership. Take that Karen! I hope you smell like chicken for a week!! ETA: Holy !!! I've never gotten a medal before!!! Thanks!!!
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    Font - Burger King Karen I was in a local BK today, waiting to give my order. I noticed the employee at the register was special needs, so he was a little slower taking everyone's order, which was totally fine. But he was very thorough, & very sweet. (My son is on the spectrum, & he reminded me of my boy). He also made sure he repeated everything back to the person who ordered, so he knew he got it correct.
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    Font - I was about to step closer to order, when Karen came flying over, & cut in front of me, waving her wrapped Whopper. "EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEE...I NEEEEED to know if there is any salt on my Whopper. I ordered it with no pickles & no salt, and I see that the little picture of pickles is crossed out, but I don't see any picture of salt that is crossed out. I NEEEEED to know if you added salt to my Whopper!!!"
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    Font - The employee says, "Ma'am, I made sure I pushed the 'no seasonings' button on the register when you ordered. I also turned around and told them 'special order, no seasonings' on your burger. And then I asked them when they handed it to me just to make sure. And it's on the receipt. It says, 'No seasonings."
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    Font - She then starts yelling at the poor employee, "But, I NEEEEED to know it doesn't have salt. See? The pickle thing is crossed out. But I really don't like salt, so I NEEEED to know there is no salt on it."
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    Font - He explains again what care he took to make sure that there was no salt on Karen's burger. By then, the Manager wandered over. Manager says, "Ma'am, he made sure they made your burger with the utmost care. I can assure you, there is no added salt. There may be a small amount already in the Mayo, and the bread, but there's none in the tomatoes, onions, or lettuce, and he already said there are no pickles on your burger."
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    Font - Karen goes up an entire octave I didn't know was possible, "I SEE the pickle picture is crossed out on the wrapper. I NEEEEED to know there is no salt added."
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    Font - Finally, the manager takes the wrapped Whopper from her, pulls a black marker out of his pocket, & proceeds to draw a little salt shaker on the wrapper. Then he points to it, crosses it out, & then says, "See? No salt," & hands it back to her.
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    Font - Well, I couldn't help but bust out laughing so loud!! Karen grabs the Whopper out of his hands, turns around & gives me her best Karen look, & storms off to eat her "Salt free, no pickles Whopper."
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  • 20
    Font - I ordered, told them both that they were my heroes, & enjoyed my whopper with cheese. The cheese was circled on my Whopper. They are very thorough!
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  • 21
    Font - EDIT: Maybe I made a mistake in describing the employee as "special needs." I was trying to portray a person who just may be on the spectrum (like my son). I was so proud of him for handling the Karen with GRACE. He didn't let her fluster him. I'm not sure I could ever make everyone happy with a narrow description of nuanced person, but please forgive me.
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  • 22
    Font - Karen at subway threatened to report employee for no reason This happened back in 09' I was on my way home from work at the time and decided to stop at subway on my way, I get in and I can't decide what I want and this woman walks up behind me so I let her go ahead of me, she pulls out her phone and orders 9 sandwiches, each sandwich was very specific and when she would ask for like tomatoes she would complain about how they "didn't look right", literally made the employee sift through th
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  • 23
    Font - the employee couldn't have been more polite she was also the only one working so she was rushing to get the sandwiches together but she was able to do Karen's and mine (she was quick even with all the BS) after she got all the sandwiches wrapped and bagged the woman went to pay and asked for corporates number, she said the employee "made her sandwiches rudely and she was gonna report her" (TF that even mean) the employee apologized and gave her a business card, the woman walked over to th
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  • 24
    Font - (American btw) more than loud enough for the woman to hear, I also gave the employee my phone number and told her if she complained I would vouch for her, the look on Karen's face made my millennium
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